Tesla AI Day to be held on August 19, Elon Musk says

Most important goal of the event: Recruiting the best AI talent.
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Tesla AI Day to be held on August 19, Elon Musk says
The event's goal is to recruit the world's best AI talent. Credit: AFP via Getty Images

Tesla is having an event called Tesla AI Day on August 19, company CEO Elon Musk has announced.

Tesla had a Tesla Autonomy Day in 2019, and Tesla Battery Day in 2020, but it never had an event solely dedicated to artificial intelligence.

Musk shared little else about the event, besides its main goal: to convince the best AI talent to join Tesla.

However, Musk low-key announced the event back in June, when he tweeted the company is looking at holding an AI day in about a month.

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"Will go over progress with Tesla AI software & hardware, both training & inference. Purpose is recruiting," he wrote.

This might mean that the conference will be a bit harder to follow than your typical technology event, at least if you're not an AI expert. But if the goal is to hire the world's best AI experts, then that makes sense.

Tesla is at the forefront of AI research, together with companies such as General Motors or Alphabet's Waymo, as the company races to turn its cars into self-driving vehicles. Recently, Tesla enabled its Full Self-Driving package as a beta option for Tesla drivers, raising concerns whether that kind of software should be deployed at all until it's fully ready.

Notably, Musk has expressed his concerns about the threat of AI on multiple occasions, calling it "potentially more dangerous than nukes" and worrying that we might turn AI into "an immortal dictator from which we would never escape." Maybe we'll find out if he still feels that way on August 19.

Stan Schroeder
Stan Schroeder
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Stan is a Senior Editor at Mashable, where he has worked since 2007. He's got more battery-powered gadgets and band t-shirts than you. He writes about the next groundbreaking thing. Typically, this is a phone, a coin, or a car. His ultimate goal is to know something about everything.


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